On Feb. 19, 2024, multiple viral posts on X claimed that President Joe Biden issued “Executive Order 9066,” purportedly giving people who illegally cross the U.S.-Mexico border a $5,000 gift ...

104): Now therefore, by virtue of the authority vested in me as President of the United States ... Military Commanders in carrying out this Executive Order, including the furnishing of medical ...

Less than three months after Japan's Dec. 7, 1941, surprise attack on Pearl Harbor that led to America entering World War II, then-President Franklin D. Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066.

The surprise attack caught the U.S. military off-guard and ultimately brought the country into World War II.President Franklin Delano Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066 on Feb. 19, 1942.

Feb. 19 marks the anniversary of an executive order that led to the involuntary detention of thousands of Japanese Americans in California and the U.S. as a whole. The order came in the wake of ...